This Week in Elasticsearch - February 19, 2014

Welcome to This Week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

The Ruby client for Elasticsearch will now automatically use a high performance HTTP library such as Patron or Typhoeus, when it's required. Most importantly, these clients will use persistent HTTP connections to Elasticsearch, boosting performance and reducing load on the engine. For more details, see the commit message

Where to Find Us

We'd love to feature all the great Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana presentations and meetups happening worldwide in this section. If you're speaking or hosting a meetup, let our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, know!

Australia

The Melbourne Search Users Group will once again welcome folks from Elasticsearch on March 13th. Please join to hear from Britta Weber on Custom Scoring Functions in Elasticsearch and Lee Hinman's Introduction to Logstash. Doors open at 6 PM. Many thanks to these folks for inviting us to join them once again!

The fine folks at Atlassian have graciously offered to host the second Sydney Elasticsearch meetup, featuring the aforementioned talks from Britta and Lee. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Many thanks to Atlassian for sponsoring the venue and attendee refreshments.

Germany

Alex Reelsen and Honza Kral will share the stage at GOTO Berlin night on March 18th. They'll be talking all about Elasticsearch 1.0 and how to use the ELK stack (that's Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana) to create real-time dashboards. Doors open at 7 PM and registration is required via the GOTO Berlin site.

Alex Reelsen will be attending DevCamp Karlsruhe on March 21-23rd. Say hello when you pass him in the hallway track.

United States

Leslie Hawthorn, Kevin Kluge and Jordan Sissel will all be presenting at the 12th Annual Southern California Linux Expo, a.k.a. SCALE 12x. If you can't catch the talks, make sure to stop by our table to say hello. SCALE runs from February 21st-23rd.

The second Los Angeles Elasticsearch Meetup will be held on Friday, February 21st at SCALE 12x. Join us for casual discussion and refreshments. You don't have to be attending SCALE to come to the meetup, but the organizers have offered a generous discount on conference passes to meetup attendees. We'll get together at starting at 7 PM.

The Elasticsearch Denver Meetup group will be getting together on February 24th to hear about Automattic's use of Elasticsearch. Doors open at 6:30 PM and Elasticsearch core developer Lee Hinman will also be on hand for Q&A.

We've set the date for the first ever Elasticsearch Portlandia Meetup on March 4th. Steve Mayzak will cover Elasticsearch 1.0 - Whats new and how are people using it? Our community manager, Leslie Hawthorn, will also be visiting from Europe. She's looking forward to hearing from everyone about what could be done to make your lives as Elasticsearch users better.

Safe and sound following the recent Portlandia Snowpocalypse, Steve Mayzak's presentation to the Seattle Search and Machine Learning meetup group has been rescheduled for March 6th. Please join Steve starting at 7 PM to hear all about Elasticsearch 1.0.

The Philadelphia Elasticsearch Meetup group has just been set up, and the organizers are figuring out the first meeting date. Join the meetup group to get regular updates.

Where to Find You

Our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, is hard at work to help folks create more Elasticsearch meetup groups and to help meetup organizers find more speakers. If you are interested in either effort, take a moment to let her know.

Oh yeah, we're also hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note. We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticearch, Kibana and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: